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ATA CHANGE" OF STATUS:<

"Why, no," was Mile. Longlen's answer. "Will my social statua. be affected?

Why, no, I should think not."

And I also, I should think not. For what is this social status that it should be overset because its owner has signed, an agreement to ive exhibition matches for money, on a four months' tour in the United States, in Canada, in Cuba, and in Mexico? I know nothing of Mlle. Lenglen's purse nor of how much may be in it. But, it mast be a doup purse and a full one if she could afford to refuse how much do they say?-thirty

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man at pay ong of them. Yot we wondered at them and applaud- ed the young man And why? It was because he was an amateur. ∙He was one of us, clad like us and

not in fleshings and spangles. One of us was doing these deeds: therefore we had a triumph, as though we were our- selves doing them......

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“One of Us," Nowadays it is hard to pick and choose between the professionals and the amateurs in many of our games. Amateur or professional the player seems to spend all his days at this sport. Yet so long as he may keep the name of amateur, the amateur is nearer to us of the crowd than any professional can ever be. In our imagination 'Hel is one of us, one who has taken

or forty thousand pounds for play-n day off from his work to' handle) ing at her favourite game cha a bat or a racket. He is playing! four months tour in foreign parts. for our side, for the side of those May good luck go with her. who cannot give up their lives to Indeed I hope that it is a matter. the game, howover, much we may as some say, of fifty thousand love it.

pounda: the more the merrier. J could envy fer. Why was I not bred up to play some game with auch perfection, that the world would pay to watch me at it Bu now it is too late: nobody will ever tempt me with so much money to cast away my state as an amateur."

Yet Mlle. Lenglen must have her thirty thousand pounds, or her forty thousand pounds, at a price. "Of course," she says, "I shall not be able to play at Wimbledon again." But I am not thinking about Wimbledon. What is in my mind is that Mile. Lenglen must' henceforward live. and play her game, without having any sym-. pathy from me.

A Small Matter.

It is possible that she will count that a small matter.. For we have not yet met: I have never been in the crowd that gathered to watch and applaud her. 'Do not blame me for that: I was born so fashioned that I can have no pleasure in watching anybody else playing at any game. There were so many people to watch Mile. Lengler wherever she played that she cannot have been disheartened. or put off her game when she saw that I was not there. Neverthe- less, I read about her.

Willing or unwilling. I read about her in the newspaper. For I am not a judge of the supreme court, that I should ask who is this

Mlle. Lenglen. I know well enough. It seems as though I have been reading about her for years. I know her picture in print as well as I know anybody's picture. Show me now her por- trait and, with a glance at the ban- deau-is it not a bandenu?-that drapes her forehead, I shall tell you now, yes, that is Suzanne. It is impossible, living in the world where newspapers.' are sold, "I should not have read much con- cerning the service and the foot- work of this unvanquished lady.

And now, I think, I shall read no more. I shall see many a word of her in print any many another portrait, but I shall see these with dull eyes. It is not my fault nor her fault: it is what come of her changing into h professional plaver.

Part of the Business.

I honour the professional players at any game and do not 'grudge them their rewards: they must needs play hard for them. What young man, taking his plea- sure in a gymnasium among ladders and vaulting horses and trapezes, will ever come to such daring skill as belongs to the acrobat who is an acrobat by trade? The answer is, as I sup- pose, none. But when the acrobat shows himself on the stage in his spangled fleshings, I am discom-) forted, I know very well that he is going to do wonderful things. Also I know that I shall not be so amazed by those wonderful things as I ought to bo.. They are a"part of his business; the more sight of his spangles stifles-my wonder- ing..

I have seen, an acrobat--but · | there, you have seen acrobats an:1 know what those men can do, feats that seem beyond the power of any man's body, But let me remark. that, oned upon a time. I knew a yoting man who could walk upside. down; on His hands, holding his hat in his fect. I can tell you that when he walked thus round a table, the hearts of all, of us who beheld him leapt at the sight. He could leap over a table of middling size: ho could also turn à somer- sault very gracefully.

Now I take it that each of those feats is of the AB Q of aerobatiça: not a child who is prentice to the. trade but could match that young

But the professional player is a professional player, and by that ha is further away from us. We may praise his fine stroke, his bold attack, his stubborn defence. In our hearts we know that perfec- tion in such things is the business of his life: it is no marvel that he has not our imperfection. No need to tell me that Mlle. Lenglen of to-day is the Mile. Lenglen of yesterday. In my fancy she is now of the professional playerH: I cannot help but stop wondering at the skill.or her. The Londoner in Evening Nows.

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